Borrowers Suing Over Distressed Mortgage Fees Must Show Proper Notice

Mealey's (August 17, 2017, 10:47 AM EDT) -- SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A California federal judge on Aug. 10 partially granted a motion to dismiss class claims brought by borrowers against Nationstar LLC and Solutionstar LLC, both subsidiaries of Nationstar Mortgage Holdings Inc., alleging that the defendants unfairly and excessively charged them for distressed mortgage fees and gave those plaintiffs for whom Nationstar had been shown to be the lenders’ assignee one chance to show that they complied with the uniform Deeds of Trust’s notice-and-cure provision (Eugenio and Rosa Contreras, et al. v. Nationstar LLC, et al., No. 16-302, E.D. Calif., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 127357)....